Next month, when the 2024 Tony Awards for excellence in Broadway theater are handed out, hair and wig designer Nikiya Mathis will be honored with a Special Tony for her work on the acclaimed play Jaja's African Hair Braiding, Jocelyn Bioh’s seriocomic celebration of West African immigrant hair braiders in…

EXCLUSIVE: Lord of the Rings star Morfydd Clark and Under the Banner of Heaven's Billy Howle will star in new versions of John Osborn's Look Back In Anger and Arnold Wesker's Roots, which will run in rep at London's Almeida in what has been dubbed the Angry and Young season. Ahead of the season, Romola…

Swept Away, the musical with music and lyrics by roots rock band The Avett Brothers, will arrive on Broadway this fall following previous stagings at California’s Berkeley Repertory Theatre and Washington’s Arena Stage. Although the Broadway production will be at a Shubert theater, a venue and…

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Broadway’s Stereophonic and Hell’s Kitchen were named the season’s Outstanding Play and Outstanding Musical by The Drama League, with Sarah Paulson winning the Distinguished Performance Award for her work in the Outstanding Play Revival Appropriate. Drama League Awards, considered the oldest…

Illinoise, the dance-musical hybrid nominated for four Tony Awards (including Best Musical) is the seventh collaboration between Justin Peck, the resident choreographer and artistic advisor of the New York City Ballet, and his old friend and creative partner Sufjan Stevens, the indie singer-songwriter…

Sutton Foster, just off a run in Sweeney Todd, will star in a musical revival of Once Upon a Mattress on Broadway this summer. The production, a new adaptation by Amy Sherman-Palladino that debuted in a two-week engagement co-starring Michael Urie at New York City Center's Encores in January…

The stage musical adaptation of Death Becomes Her will open on Broadway this fall, with Megan Hilty, Jennifer Simard, Christopher Sieber and Destiny's Child’s Michelle Williams in the principal roles they’re currently playing in Chicago. The production, directed and choreographed by Christopher…

Broadway’s spring roster seemed to settle into a Tony season box office ranking, with the strongest of the newcomers maintaining their draws and the weakest continuing downward slides. In that first category were repeat sell-outs An Enemy of the People, Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club and Hell’s Kitchen…

Emmy and Golden Globe-winner Darren Criss (American Buffalo, The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story) will return to the stage alongside Helen J Shen (The Lonely Few, Teeth) in the Broadway premiere of the new musical Maybe Happy Ending. Maybe Happy Ending will begin previews on…

Judi Dench has become the latest actor to rail against trigger warnings in the theatre, telling people to stay at home if they are sensitive. The Oscar-winning actress said she was surprised to learn that audiences were routinely being warned about potentially distressing content, including abuse…

Samm-Art Williams, whose Tony-nominated 1979 play Home is being revived on Broadway this year and whose TV producing credits include Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Martin and Hangin' with Mr. Cooper, died peacefully today in Burgaw, North Carolina. He was 78. His death was announced by family. Born…